WORK HISTORY
2023-2026
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), ‘The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900’ (€250,000), Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
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2022-2023
Postdoctoral Research Associate in 'Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic,' Department of History, University of Liverpool (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), £1,000,000)
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2021-2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 'The Romantic Ridiculous,' Edge Hill University (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), £250,000)
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2020-2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 'Reading for Normal: Young People and Fiction in the Time of Covid-19,' University of Roehampton (British Academy and Southlands Methodist Trust, £8,500)
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2019-2020
Associate Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
Tutor, Department of English and Department of History, University of Warwick
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2014-2020
Resident Tutor, Residential Life Team, University of Warwick
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2018-2019
Early Career Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
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2014
Digitisation Officer, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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EDUCATION
2014-2019
PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies (Minor corrections)
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
Title: 'Women in Residence: Forms of Belonging in Jane Austen'
Examiners: Professor Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent) and Professor Emma Mason (University of Warwick)
Conferral of award on 11 March 2019
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2012-2013
MA in English Literature (Merit)
Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
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2009-2012
BA in Modern Languages - English major, Spanish minor (First)
Department of Modern Languages, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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PEER REVIEWING
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Women’s Writing, Wilkie Collins Journal, Studies in European Cinema
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PUBLISHED FICTION
2013
'Home,' INK, Magazine of the Writing Society of the University of Warwick
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CREATIVE WORK
2015
PhD Life, University of Warwick
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2014-2015
Daily Touch
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2013-2014
The Boar, University of Warwick
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FUNDING
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2023
€250,000 - Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), 'The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900'
£5,000 - UK Research and Innovation Impact Acceleration Account, University of Liverpool, with Mark Towsey
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2022
£250 - Bursary for presentation at BARS/NASSR: New Romanticisms Conference, Edge Hill University
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2021
£100 - Bursary for presentation at Table Talks III: New Approaches to Romantic Studies and Youth, Edge Hill University
£130 - Conference Bursary, The Prospect of Improvement, Mellon Foundation
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2018-2019
£7,310 - Early Career Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick
£100 - Women and Property in the long Eighteenth Century Workshop, Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre, University of Warwick
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2018
£250 - Conference bursary for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Department of English, University of Warwick
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2017
£270 - Conference bursary for the British Association for Romantic Studies, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Women, Money and Markets conference, Department of English, University of Warwick
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2016
£1,050 - Conference bursary for Displacements: The Novel Without Frontiers Conference, University of São Paulo, Department of English, University of Warwick
£250 - Conference bursary for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Department of English, University of Warwick
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2015
£250 - Arts Faculty Seminar Series, HRC, University of Warwick
£100 - Arts Faculty Seminar Series, CADRE, University of Warwick
£100 - Conference bursary for the Women, Land and the Making of the British Landscape, 1300-1900 conference, University of Hull
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AWARDS
2021
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Early Career Award (£100)
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2017
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies President’s Prize (£100)
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2016
Nomination for British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies President’s Prize
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2012
Feijó Curricular Award, presented to the best student graduating from the Modern Languages department of the University of Coimbra (£500)
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2012, 2011, 2010
Awards for the top 3% students of the degree in Modern Languages of the University of Coimbra (£1300 in total)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024
‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense” in Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island,’ British Association for Romantic Studies, University of Glasgow (Forthcoming)
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‘Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Managing, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen,’ British Association for Romantic Studies, University of Glasgow (Forthcoming)
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2023
'Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-Century Subscription Library: Translated European Conduct Books and British Women Readers in the Bristol Library Society,' Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
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Book Launch for Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, Eighteenth-Century Worlds Centre Seminar Series, University of Liverpool
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'Birmingham Books: Utilising Histories of Place-Based Reading to Promote Pride in Place, Mental Health and Well-Being in Disadvantaged Communities,' Eighteenth-Century Worlds Centre Seminar Series, University of Liverpool
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'Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-Century Subscription Library: European Conduct Books and British Women Readers in the Bristol Library Society,' Libraries, Lives and Legacies Conference, University of Liverpool
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'Jane Austen’s Portraits,' Romantic Author Portraiture Panel, BARS Digital Event
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'Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-century Subscription Library: European Conduct Books and British Women Readers,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
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2022
'Reply to the Laddies: Masculinity in Scottish Women’s Writing,' BARS Second Digital Burns Night Supper (By invitation)
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2021
'From Pride and Prejudice to Prom and Prejudice,' Table Talks III: New Approaches to Romantic Studies and Youth, Edge Hill University
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'"Elizabeth … went to the window to enjoy its prospect": Elizabeth Bennet, George Lyttleton and Society as Landscape in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice' The Prospect of Improvement: A Bluestocking Landscape Conference, Hagley Hall
'"She looked on the whole scene … as far as she could trace it – with delight": The Prospect Trope in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,' Jane Austen and the Senses Workshop, University of Lancaster (By invitation)
'Country Houses and Ownership in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility,' Literature and Inclusivity Series, University of Roehampton
'Mourning Ownership: The Prospect Trope in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2020
'"And of this place … I might have been mistress!" — The prospective husband’s house in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford
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2019
'Challenges of Teaching Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Feminisms,' Research in Action Conference, University of Warwick
'"And of this place … I might have been mistress!"— The prospective husband’s house in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,' International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh
'"Every neighbourhood should have a great Lady": Propertied Women in Jane Austen’s Novels,' University of Warwick
'"Prettier than any pleasure-garden she had ever been in before": The Prospective Husband’s Garden in Jane Austen,' Warwickshire Gardens Trust, Leamington Spa
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2018
'"Working herself into" a home: Fanny Price’s East Room in Mansfield Park,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford
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2017
'Creators of Spaces: Single Women and Decoration in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility,' British Association for Romantic Studies, York
'"Abilities, as well as affections": The Surrogate Manager in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Persuasion,' King’s College London
'"An office in which she had always depended": Surrogate Managers in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Persuasion,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford
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2016
'Women Owning Property: The Great Lady in Jane Austen,' University of São Paulo, Brazil
'"Method, moderation, and economy": The Female Household Manager in Jane Austen,' Jane Austen Society, Exeter
'Women Owning Property: The Great Lady in Jane Austen,' British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford
2013
'Was Mary Wroth Shakespeare’s Dark Lady?' University of Warwick
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PODCAST INVITATIONS
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2023
Hack History
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2021
LOL My Praxis
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TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS
2021
Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
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2016-2017
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice by the Learning and Development Centre (LDC), University of Warwick
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2023-2024
A005260 Literature in English: Modern Period IV - Victorian Periodicals (MA), Ghent University
A703323 English: Area Studies - UK and US History (MA), Ghent University
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2022-2023
HIST117 Understanding Modern Europe (1st year), University of Liverpool
LIT2050 Romanticism (2nd year), Edge Hill University
2021-2022
LIT4001 Romantic Movements (MA; Co-creator)
LIT4002 Victorian Decades (MA), Edge Hill University
LIT3040 The Victorians at Work (3rd year), Edge Hill University
LIT3045 Hosting a Literary Festival (3rd year), Edge Hill University
LIT2050 Romanticism (2nd year), Edge Hill University
LIT1025 Form (1st year), Edge Hill University
WRI2028 The Art of Creative Non-Fiction (2nd year), Edge Hill University
University Foundation Certificate Fastrack Course, Edge Hill University
LET-ETCENB203 Screening the Novel (2nd year), Radboud University (Invited speaker)
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2019-2022
Private GCSE and A-level Tutor
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2019-2020
EN334 Crime Fiction, Nation and Empire: Britain 1850-1947 (2nd and 3rd year)
HI174 The Enlightenment (1st year), University of Warwick
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2018-2019
Women at Home: Gender and Place in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel (Own module), Workers’ Educational Association
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2018, 2016
EN201 The European Novel (2nd and 3rd year), University of Warwick
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2016-2017
EN328 English Literature and Feminisms, 1790-1899 (2nd and 3rd year), University of Warwick
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2015-2016
Ambassador for International Gateway for Gifted Youth, University of Warwick
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2013-2014
Tutor for Transformations Widening Participation programme, University of Warwick
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2013
EN958 Shakespeare and His Sister (MA), University of Warwick
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DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
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2023-2024
PhD Dissertation Mentor, Ghent University
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2022-2023
'The English Ambassadress in a Cosmopolitan World: Women, Diplomacy and Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century' (PhD), University of Liverpool
Panellist for PhD Annual Progress Review
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2021-2022
'Money in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Their Adaptations' (MA), Edge Hill University
'The Representation of Bath in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion' (BA), Edge Hill University
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EXHIBITION ORGANISATION
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2021-2022
Co-organiser of 'Ridiculous Romantic Portraits,' Wordsworth Grasmere
Co-organiser of 'Ridiculous Romantic Landscapes,' Windermere Jetty Museum
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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
2023-2024
Organiser of Women, Property and Economics Online Series of Talks
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2022-2023
Co-organiser of Libraries, Lives and Legacies Conference, University of Liverpool
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2021-2022
Co-organiser of BARS/NASSR 2021: New Romanticisms International Conference, Edge Hill University
Co-organiser of Table Talks, Edge Hill University
Co-organiser of Edge Hill Nineteen Virtual Seminar Series
2019
Organiser of Women and Property in the long Eighteenth Century Workshop, University of Warwick
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2015-2016
Co-organiser of Arts Faculty Seminar Series, University of Warwick
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2011
Co-organiser of APEAA Annual Conference at the University of Coimbra
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Jane Austen Society
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837
Young Adult Studies Association
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Portuguese (native), Spanish (fluent), French (elementary), Dutch (elementary)